Eng­land fast bowler Chris Jor­dan has joined Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League fran­chise Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers as a re­place­ment for Pak­istani Muham­mad Has­nain, who was re­called to Pak­istan a week ago.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that the fast bowler, who is a na­tive of Bar­ba­dos, will join the team in Bar­ba­dos on Wednes­day and will be in con­tention for a spot in the TKR line-up when they take on the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents at the Kens­ing­ton Oval from 6 pm on Thurs­day.

Jor­dan, who played for Eng­land against the West In­dies ear­li­er this year dur­ing the Colo­nial Med­ical In­sur­ance Cup in the West In­dies, brings a lot of ex­pe­ri­ence to the fast bowl­ing unit at TKR. The 30-year old last played for Eng­land against Pak­istan in May this year but was over­looked for the ICC World Cup and was not used against Aus­tralia in the Ash­es se­ries re­cent­ly. Jor­dan has played in 39 T20 in­ter­na­tion­als and has tak­en 47 wick­ets at an av­er­age of 25.61.

The Pak­is­tan Crick­et Board (PCB), af­ter ini­tial­ly giv­ing Has­nain a No-Ob­jec­tion Cer­tifi­cate (NOC) to play for the en­tire CPL, made an about-turn and de­cid­ed to re­voke the NOC. Every play­er who takes part in fran­chise T20 leagues re­quires an NOC from their re­spec­tive crick­et boards in line with the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) pol­i­cy.

How­ev­er, the PCB want Has­nain for a se­ries against Sri Lan­ka from Sep­tem­ber 27 to Oc­to­ber 19 in Pak­is­tan and in or­der to get him in­to ‘red ball’ groove, they called him home to take part in the do­mes­tic Quaid-e-Azam tro­phy.

Jor­dan was one of two singings an­nounced by teams yes­ter­day.

The Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents al­so re­vealed that they had signed Bangladesh all-rounder Shak­ib Al Hasan. He will re­place Nepal’s Sandeep Lamich­hane who has re­turned to his coun­try for na­tion­al du­ty.

Al Hasan, who com­plet­ed a T20 se­ries against Afghanistan with Bangladesh yes­ter­day, has rep­re­sent­ed both the Tri­dents and Ja­maica Tallawahs be­fore and still has the best-ever bowl­ing haul in CPL his­to­ry with six wick­ets for six run against the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers dur­ing the 2013 sea­son.

Al Hasan has played 75 T20s for Bangladesh and was in out­stand­ing form dur­ing this year’s ICC Crick­et World Cup in Eng­land, where he scored 606 runs at a phe­nom­e­nal av­er­age of 86.57.